Aha! Thanks one and all, I'm much obliged.
It seems to fly in the face of logic not to provide a system disk with a laptop or desk PC. You might as well have your car engine confiscated the first time it breaks down! Perhaps not the best of parallels, but you get my drift.
You will each have read between the lines and divined that I have done more OS reloads than I care to remember.
Well, you learn by experience, don't you?
Thanks, Gentlemen,
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